Then this all the more reason you need to heed the Bible in what it actually says, brother.
Most want the Bible to say what they want it to say.
And that relates to what I said about our corrupted dying bodies how?
Do you not believe that you are not ageing? That’s a new one, never meet anyone who thought they weren’t going to die before.
Also >cough< sister. I’m a woman, but that’s okay.
Let me ask you: Do you believe king David was saved WHILE he committed his sins of adultery and murder? Do you believe a Christian is saved if they looked upon a woman in lust and they then got hit by a bus and they died before they got a chance to confess their sins to Jesus? Do you believe a Christian is saved if they backslide into a lifestyle of sin?
Kind David was not in the same position as we are. He was credited as being righteous as was Noah and Abraham, this did not make them perfect.
6 David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the one to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
7 “Blessed are those
whose transgressions are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the one
whose sin the Lord will never count against them.
If a person has truly put their faith in Christ, commits a sin and gets hit with a bus in the middle of sinning, yes, they are saved. They are saved because of Christ, not by anything that they did.
If someone has backslid into a life of sin only God knows if they are still saved because only God can look upon their heart.
Again, Paul did not say this as a Christian, but he said this from his past experience as a Pharisee without Jesus in his life. How so? Well, the apostle Paul would be a hypocrite if he told us to cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of God in 2 Corinthians 7:1 if he was wretched sinner who was enslaved to sin. It would be like your Pastor telling you to stop sinning and yet he was sleeping around with half of the church. Paul said to follow his example as Christ is his example (1 Corinthians 11:1). Paul said we have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16).
Paul was most definitely a Christian when he wrote Romans.
21 So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
I mean, what do you even make of 1 Corinthians 5? Paul told the church body to kick out that Christian who was committing fornication in the church. If Paul was a wretched sinner, then he has no grounds to tell another to not sin. He would be in the same boat of sin with that guy who was kicked out of the church. See.... this is why what you believe is not in line with the Bible. We are saved by God's grace. No doubt about it. But you fail to understand that Titus 2:11-12 says that God's grace teaches us to deny ungodliness and that we should live godly and righteously in this present world. How can Paul tell Titus this if he himself is not living godly?
Yes lets look at I Corinthians.
5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife! 2 And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.
I see two very important parts there.
First I see practiced premeditated sin.
that a man has his father’s wife!
He didn’t accidentally sleep with his father’s wife. He knew exactly what he was doing, he planned and made a choose to do so.
Secondly and very importantly is the reaction after the act.
And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned,
So instead of being repentant about it, feeling horrible over their sin, they are rather pleased with themselves.
No Christian is happy with sin. No Christian should practice sin. But just because you don't practice sin does not mean you won't sin. Unless you are claiming to be as perfect as Jesus you will have faults.
Which going back to my first post is why I said good deeds flow naturally from being saved. Hating sin also flows naturally from being saved, but this does not mean we will never sin again. If the dog vomits over your pillow and you get angry you have sinned. You didn't plan to sin, your emotions rose up and you sinned. You may be quite sorry after for yelling later but you are not perfect, only God is perfect. Or would your wife if asked say yes you are perfect? I can tell you that I am not perfect and neither is my husband.